'The Little Ant-Eater' [Silky anteater ?] mb-height 4098 Mr Punch pokes gentle fun

Mr Punch pokes gentle fun at all those philanthropists by suggesting that the tables be turned

Graeme Garden & Bill Oddie

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Clarke (right)

'The Little Ant-Eater' [Silky anteater ?] mb-height 4098 Mr Punch pokes gentle funZoological study of a South American anteater, possibly the Silky anteater (Cyclopes didactylus). The animal is shown with two front claws encircling a branch. Plate 220 from chapter 10 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'An animal from the Spanish Main in America drawn near of the Natural Size. Geo Edwards